An efficient numerical method for solving Falkner-Skan boundary layer flows

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 499-508

  Motsa, S S ^a   Sibanda, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SWAZILAND   (Swaziland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Boundary value problems; Falkner Skan; Homotopy analysis method; Nonlinear; Spectral method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; EFFICIENT NUMERICAL METHOD; FALKNER-SKAN; FALKNER-SKAN EQUATIONS; HOMOTOPY ANALYSIS METHODS; NONLINEAR; SEMI-INFINITE DOMAINS; SPECTRAL METHODS; THIRD-ORDER;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84859776070     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2570     Document Type: Article

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